Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-08
srn'I County &fgister


Ready to rain vindicti
blows;
Whose tongue is ready with glib and jeer
To stir up strife whenever he can,
Breathing menace and waking fear,
Who grows to be q manly man.
1t isn't the boy who takes his mug
OF the horrible liquid labelled beer,
Then hangs himself by a silly hug
To the liveliest lamp-p post standing near,
Tho he smoke the yilest cigarette,
And lord 1t over a black. and tan,
Or gallant horse, can tell him yet,
He's far from being a manly man.
1t isn't loose speech nor dress that is loud !;
1t isn't the cut Of the coat he may wear;
A clown with ease attracts a crowd,
And wins senseless shout and stare;
He may sport the heaviest watch and chair
With collar and necktie lead the vain,
And flourish the nobbiest hat and cane
These never make q manly man.
Will he think he has come to mans estate,
When he feels the down on his feeble chin
VIII he think that vices make him great,
That only the weak are afraid of sin:
Some day to his foolish heart he will own
He might have followed wiser plan
One that will help, and one alone,
A boy to be a manly man.
know yon, my manly boy,
/ know who followed the Golden Rule:
know what makes you a household joy,
A priceless treasure with all at school,
know what comfort wise hearts take
Who do you homage with all their clan.
They know very well you will one day make
A manly Christian gentleman.
Pioneer.
WHY NoTFACE THE RUIN ED BOYS AND
GIRLS.
To the Editor Of the Pioneer:
DEAR SIR: In recent issue Won
give a short account OF the LIQUOR
Dealers Conference, and of the great
parade which you say passed down
Broadway and over the great bridge to
Brooklyn. Why they took that route we
are not told, no doubt it was to impress
the people of the greatest thoroug hfare
in our city with the magnitude of their
association. 1 have been wondering
whether any Of those who took part in
that long parade were fully scq tainted
with the extent, influence, and results
Ut the great business which they repre-
scented. How it would have enlight-
ened their minds, if in their line of
march they could have paid visit to
the Tombs and looked into the faces of
the men and women there who were
once their best customers; then if they
could have visited some of our city
hospitals and witnessed the pain and
restiessness which their beverages had
produced; then they might haye taken
delightful sail up the East River and
passed through BIackwell's and
Wards Islands. and held a few mo-
ments conversation with some of those
who used to be their most generous
patrons. After passing through the
Islands, instead of returning by boat,
they might have taken the horse cars,
or oy their own handsome coaches and
visited AZ many of the homes of their
customers an time would have permit
ted. How many Interesting stories
they would have heard from loving
mothers, fast going down with sorrow |
70 the grave; stories of q dishonored |
son, or an erring daughter who were at |
one time the life and the light of "a then
happy home! If not from . mother,
perhaps from a wife who looks back to
the time when she was bright happy
maiden, and with burning tears tells
the story Ct her love, courtship. and
to man who promised to
love and protect her, but whose very
footsteps now strike terror to her heart.
while her darling children cling to her
as their only source of protection. I
feel convinced If those good gentlemen
had only taken in some of these places
have mentioned, instead of the reso-
lutIons they adopted, we would have
had one which would read something
like this:
Resotved, That alcohol is a poison;
nat 1t il the greatest of all curses; that
tends to demOralize and brutalize the
'uman family, young and old; that it
the cause of most all the crime.
Misery, and degradation in our land:
hat 1t is bar to education, political
'urity. and true religion, that it is op-
'osed to freedom and therefore un-
American, be it therefore
Resolved, THAT we will no longer
ell 1t or allow 1t to be sold on our
remises. and further, that we will do
IL in our power to secure the prohibi.
ion OF its sale, manufacture, and cou-
nmption In the community.
Then let us pray, that come it may,
As come it will, for a. that;
When men without the drunkard's drink.
Shall brothers be and a. that,
And a. that, and a. that,
A mans a man for a. that,
And he who leaves the drink alone
Is the better man for a. that.
ours Truly, MALCOLM BRINE.
Is Lewis ST., New York, August 80.
CIGARETTES KILLED HIM AT ELEVEN
YEARS.
Especial to the Worldly
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2l.-Mathew -
ird, eleven years old, died on Friday
I'd the Coroner's jury to-day returned
verdict that he was killed by narcotic